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US1569775A
US1569775A US735823A US73582324A US1569775A US 1569775 A US1569775 A US 1569775A US 735823 A US735823 A US 735823A US 73582324 A US73582324 A US 73582324A US 1569775 A US1569775 A US 1569775A
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  • methanol can be obtained by the interaction of carbon monoxid and hydrogen at-an elevated temperature and pressure and by the use of contact masses capable of causing the formation of methanol and higher alcohols by the said interaction, provided the interior of the contact space be kept completely free from iron.
  • the contact masses must be free from iron, the inner surface of the walls of the reaction chamber must not consist of. iron and the gases must not carr any iron, either in the form of fine partic es or ofvolatile compounds of iron such as iron carbonyl. Provided the above conditions be observed, the other conditions may be varied within very wide limits.
  • the nature of the contact masses may vary very considerably and the said masses may contain either metals or oxids or mixtures of more than one metal or more than one oxid or of metals or oxids.
  • the pressure bein preferably from atmospheres upwar s and the temperature between say'about 250 degrees and 600 degrees centigrade, depending on the'efiiciency of the contact mass in each individual case.
  • the methanol produced in accordance with this invention is either pure or mixed with higher alcohols and other organic compou ds containing. oxygen, depending on the special conditions of working employed.
  • the parts are by oxid and manganese oxid, and heated to 450 degrees centigrade.
  • a gas mixture containing about 80 per cent, by volume, of hydrogen and 20 per cent, by volume, of carbon monoxid which has been carefully freed from any volatile iron compounds and suspended iron particles, is'tlien passed through the said tube at a pressure of about 220 atmospheres while maintaining the temperature at 450 degrees centigrade.
  • the reaction gas is led through a cooler without releasing the pressure, when ample quantities of methanol will separate out.
  • the residual gas may be led back into the tube after addmg a resh quantity of gas mixture.
  • Contact masses containing oxids of vanadium, uranium, aluminium or other oxids non-reducible under the conditions of working may also be employed, or metals such as copper, silver, lead, zinc in conjunction with a metal oxid or a metal salt acting as a promoter especially derived from a metal belonging to the fourth to the seventh groups of the periodic system, or metal alloys for example chromium and man anese, copper and zinc and others.

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Patented Jandlfi, 1926.
UNITEIEJKSTATES PATENT OFFICE.
ALWIN EITTASGE, OF LUDWIGSHAFENON-THE-RHINE, AND MATHIAS PIER, OF HEIDELBERG, GERMANY, ASSIGNOBS TO BADISCHE-A NILIN- 6t SODA-FABRIK, OF LUDWIGSHAFEN-ON-THE-RHINE, GERMANY, A CORPORATION OF GERMANY.
SYNTHETIC MANUFACTURE OF METHANOL.
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tion of catalysts under conditions varying as' to the nature of the catalysts andv the temperature and pressure prevailing in the reaction with the result that methane or liquid hydrocarbons have been obtained in so far as a reaction could be effected at all.
We have now found that methanol can be obtained by the interaction of carbon monoxid and hydrogen at-an elevated temperature and pressure and by the use of contact masses capable of causing the formation of methanol and higher alcohols by the said interaction, provided the interior of the contact space be kept completely free from iron. .In order to carry out this invention, the contact masses must be free from iron, the inner surface of the walls of the reaction chamber must not consist of. iron and the gases must not carr any iron, either in the form of fine partic es or ofvolatile compounds of iron such as iron carbonyl. Provided the above conditions be observed, the other conditions may be varied within very wide limits. The nature of the contact masses may vary very considerably and the said masses may contain either metals or oxids or mixtures of more than one metal or more than one oxid or of metals or oxids. In addition to carbon monoxid and hydrogen, other inert gases may be present, the pressure bein preferably from atmospheres upwar s and the temperature between say'about 250 degrees and 600 degrees centigrade, depending on the'efiiciency of the contact mass in each individual case.
The methanol produced in accordance with this invention is either pure or mixed with higher alcohols and other organic compou ds containing. oxygen, depending on the special conditions of working employed.
The following example will serve' to illustrate one manner of carrying the invention into effect without limiting the inven-' Application filed September 4, 1924. Serial 0. 735,823.
The parts are by oxid and manganese oxid, and heated to 450 degrees centigrade. A gas mixture containing about 80 per cent, by volume, of hydrogen and 20 per cent, by volume, of carbon monoxid which has been carefully freed from any volatile iron compounds and suspended iron particles, is'tlien passed through the said tube at a pressure of about 220 atmospheres while maintaining the temperature at 450 degrees centigrade. The reaction gas is led through a cooler without releasing the pressure, when ample quantities of methanol will separate out. The residual gas may be led back into the tube after addmg a resh quantity of gas mixture.
With other contact masses, for example such as are composed of copper and chromium oxid, or the oxids of zinc and chromium, the result is very similar. Under mass containing besides diflicultly reducible metal oxids a small addition of potassium carbonate and preferably'with a higher percentage of carbon monoxid and a reduced velocity of the as current, higher alcohols such as propyl, butyl and amyl alcohols are formed besides methanol, the proportions varyin according to the exact conditions, especially the temperature employed.
Contact masses containing oxids of vanadium, uranium, aluminium or other oxids non-reducible under the conditions of working may also be employed, or metals such as copper, silver, lead, zinc in conjunction with a metal oxid or a metal salt acting as a promoter especially derived from a metal belonging to the fourth to the seventh groups of the periodic system, or metal alloys for example chromium and man anese, copper and zinc and others.
at we claim is:
.1. In the process of manufacturing methanol by the interaction of carbon monoxid and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst V Joe 2. The process of manufacturing methanol by the interaction of carbon nionoxid and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst ca-.
pable of causing: the formation of methanol by the said interaction, which consists in employing a catalyst. which is fuee' from iron and a non-ferrous inner wall of the contact space and a gas mixture which is completely free fromeither suspended or vaporized iron. o. i
3. The process of manufact uring metihanol by the interaction of carbon-monoitid and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst capable In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands.
- ALWIN MITTASCH. MATHIAS PIER.
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US4460378A (en) * 1980-05-16 1984-07-17 Snamprogetti S.P.A. Process for the production of a "fuel grade" mixture of methanol and higher alcohols
US4481012A (en) * 1980-05-16 1984-11-06 Snamprogetti S.P.A. Process for the production of a mixture of methanol and higher alcohols of "fuel grade"
US4762858A (en) * 1985-09-16 1988-08-09 The Dow Chemical Company Syngas conversion to oxygenates by reduced yttrium/lanthanide/actinide-modified catalyst
US20110028631A1 (en) * 2009-08-03 2011-02-03 E. I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company Renewable Polyoxymethylene Compositions and Articles Therefrom
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